Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Running Stupid by Morris Fenris

I think most would consider Matthew Jester to be very lucky. He started off in a crumby family, was homeless as a teenager, then hit it big when he won a UK lottery.
 
Lucky.

Then he won again.  And again. Now he shares a £9 million home with England’s version of Beyonce. Like I said . . . Lucky.

A middle east-based bank has tarnished his sensibilities so Matthew sues. And he wins the largest civil suit against a bank ever recorded. Lucky.

He returns home from the verdict to find his lover slaughtered in their bathroom. His luck has run out. In his flight from the police he has to evade a bizarre set of farm-types, hired killers, a suspect driver, an ambush in a hunter’s cabin. Everywhere he turns, someone is trying to kill him, probably for the megamillion pound reward for his capture.

Not so fast. Every attempt on his life was orchestrated by the bank owner for the entertainment of an international club of billionaires.

About that time I started to lose interest . . . too contrived even by my low standards. But once he arrives at a London hotel, the story picks up with the hunter-prey version of a lab rat lost in a deadly maze.

This was a freebie found on BookBub.com. And for this venture into free reading, I’d call it ‘you get what you pay for.’ 75% of the book was entirely forced. Found myself just scanning page after page to keep me somewhat interested. The last 25% was OK and certainly unexpected. If you were between books and looking for something to kill some time, this would be reasonable. But I wouldn’t put it on a list as a must read.

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